Cultural Policy in Ibero-America

Arturo Rodríguez Morató is Professor of Sociology at the University of Barcelona, Spain. He has led a number of research projects and published extensively on cultural policy, artistic work and urban cultures, both in Spain and internationally. He was Vice President for Research of the International Sociological Association (2006-2010) and President of its Research Committee on Sociology of the Arts (1998- 2002). Mariano Martín Zamorano holds a PhD in Culture and Heritage Management from the University of Barcelona, Spain. He specializes in the field of cultural policies and has several peer-reviewed publications in this field. He has been an Associate Professor at the University of Barcelona, and currently teaches in three different postgraduate programs focusing on cultural policies and diplomacy at both the University of Barcelona and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain.

Introduction: cultural policies in Ibero-America at the beginning of the XXI century 1. Mapping cultural policy in Portugal: From incentives to crisis 2. Changing philosophies of action? Argentina’s cultural policies in the 21st century 3. Brazilian cultural policies during the workers’ party governments: challenges for the development of cultural citizenship 4. Culture-led urban regeneration policies in the Ibero-American space 5. Innovations in cultural policy and development in Latin America 6. The reshaping of Ibero-American cultural diplomacy in the beginning of the XXI century: the declining of the Spanish historical hegemony 7. Theorizing cultural diplomacy all the way down: a cosmopolitan constructivist discourse from an Ibero-American perspective